James Gilligan, MD, spent more than 30 years serving on the faculty of the Department of Psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School, where he led a team of colleagues from Harvard teaching hospitals in providing mental health and violence prevention services to the Massachusetts prisons and prison mental hospital. He is the author of Violence: Reflections on a National Epidemic and Preventing Violence: Prospects for Tomorrow. His latest book, Why Some Politicians are More Dangerous Than Others, is devoted to his research into how rates of both suicide and homicide in the US change based on which political party is in power.
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James Gilligan
James Gilligan, MD, spent more than 30 years serving on the faculty of the Department of Psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School, where he led a team of colleagues from Harvard teaching hospitals in providing mental health and violence prevention services to the Massachusetts prisons and prison mental hospital. He is the author of Violence: […]